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The King James version was commissioned because King James was discontent with the Geneva Bible, and its perspective on kings. The Geneva Bible was the common bible of the American colonists, since they were mostly persecuted Christian denominations. (I've read it. The archaic language takes a bit of getting used to, but it is still English and understandable. I have a preference for early translations as having been less inclined to plane smooth the meaning for the sake of contemporary thinking.)
It’s why I use the Orthodox Study Bible. It’s got useful annotations, and who better to translate Greek than Greeks? But I’m not hostile to the KJV.
The Septuagint (ca 300 BC) was a translation from Hebrew to Greek which they still use. Amazingly it corresponds quite closely to the Masoretic text (ca 800 AD) translation from Hebrew to English. There’s some small differences in the order of the Psalms, but it’s pretty much the same.
The most amazing thing is how closely the Bible books match the Dead Sea Scrolls. It seems not to have been riddled with errors after all. It hasn’t been mistranslated. Nothing has been added.
I had 3 years of German study in high school---over half a century ago! I've occasionally been curious about getting a copy of Martin Luther's translation of the Bible from Latin. And of the Orthodox Bible in modern Russian. All these languages, yet the Message still comes through.
I also had 3 years of German in HS and graduated in 1971. Kooky koinkydink.